abundant
adjEtymology
First attested about 1380. From Middle English abundaunt, habundaunt, aboundant, from Anglo-Norman abundant, from Old French abondant, from Latin abundāns, present participle of abundō (“to overflow, to abound”). Compare abound.
Definitions
Fully sufficient
Fully sufficient; found in copious supply; in great quantity; overflowing.
- Blackberries are abundant in this part of the country in October, so we always make lots of jam.
- an abundant selection of carpets to choose from
- [W]ith their magical words they [poets] bring forth to our eyesight the abundant images and beauties of creation.
Richly supplied
Richly supplied; wealthy; possessing in great quantity.
- Abundant in goodness and truth.
Being an abundant number, i.e. less than the sum of all of its divisors except itself.
The neighborhood
- synonymample
- synonymbountiful
- synonymcopious
- synonymexuberant
- synonymliberal
- synonymoverflowing
- synonymplenteous
- synonymplentiful
- synonymprofuse
- synonymrich
- synonymteeming
- synonymlavish
- antonyminsufficient
- antonymlacking
- antonymrare
- antonymscant
- antonymscarce
- antonymuncommon
- antonymadequate
- antonymsatisfactory
- antonymsufficient
- neighborabound
- neighborheavy
- neighborfilled
- neighborin spades
- neighborexcess
- neighborlack
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at abundant. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at abundant. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
7 hops · closes at abundant
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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